This collection, with fifty classical speeches and many presented as audition pieces for the first time, will be invaluable both to students applying for entrance to drama school and to actors auditioning for classical roles. The pieces are selected from plays of several periods: Elizabethan-Jacobean, Restoration, eighteenth century, and late nineteenth century to early twentieth century. Audition tips are also included.

Contents:
The Alchemist, Ben Jonson - All for Love, John Dryden - Arden of Faversham, Anon - The Atheist's Tragedy, Cyril Tourneur - Bartholmew Fair, Ben Jonson - The Beaux' Strategem, George Farquhar - The Broken Heart, John Ford - Bussy D'Ambois, George Chapman - The Changeling, Thomas Middleton & William Rowley - The Country Wife, William Wycherley - The Critic, Richard Brinsley Sheridan - The Double-Dealer, William Congreve - Dr Faustus, , Christopher Marlowe - The Duchess of Malfi, John Webster - Eastward Ho!, Ben Jonson, George Chapman & John Marston - Edward the Second, Christopher Marlowe - Epicoene or The Silent Woman, Ben Jonson - Gammer Gurton's Needle, Mr S. - An Ideal Husband, Oscar Wilde - The Importance of Being Earnest, Oscar Wilde - The Knight of the Burning Pestle, Francis Beaumont - Lady Windermere's Fan, Oscar Wilde - Love for Love, William Congreve - The Malcontent, John Marston - A New Way to Pay Old Debts, Philip Massinger - The Plain Dealer, William Wycherley - The Provoked Wife, John Vanbrugh - The Relapse, John Vanbrugh - The Revenger's Tragedy, Anon - The Rivals, Richard Brinsley Sheridan - The Rover, Aphra Behn - The School for Scandal, Richard Brinsley Sheridan - She Stoops to Conquer, Oliver Goldsmith - The Shoemaker's Holiday, Thomas Dekker - The Spanish Tragedy, Thomas Kyd - 'Tis Pity She's a Whore, John Ford - Volpone, Ben Jonson - The Way of the World, William Congreve - The White Devil, John Webster - The Witch, Thomas Middleton - A Woman Killed with Kindness, Thomas Heywood - A Woman of No Importance, Oscar Wilde - Women Beware Women, Thomas Middleton